The White House gated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch to government-approved partners, the same government decided who could turn Anthropic's top models back on, and the Five Eyes said the clock is short — model access now runs through Washington first.
Every technology boom of the last thirty years was built on open source we owned. The AI boom is the first one we are renting — and the rent is our data.
Open weights stopped chasing the frontier this week and started setting it — even as Washington reminded the closed labs who really controls the off switch.
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